Canada Not Sending Fighter Jets to Europe Next Year as Air Force Rearms, Regroups

Canada Not Sending Fighter Jets to Europe Next Year as Air Force Rearms, Regroups
A CF-18 Hornet sits on the tarmac at Canadian Forces Base Trenton, in Trenton, Ont., on June 20, 2022. The Canadian Press/Lars Hagberg
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Canada will not send fighter jets to patrol NATO airspace next year, the first time that Canadian CF-18s will be absent from the skies over Europe since 2017.

Based out of Romania, the CF-18s worked with other NATO aircraft to monitor Russian activity over the Baltics and the Black Sea, and protect against any aggressive action.